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The only thing illegal about it is you're potentially violating local copyrights. Sites generally state their stance on scraping in the terms of use.
by brentm 12y ago
The only thing illegal about it is you're potentially violating local copyrights. Sites generally state their stance on scraping in the terms of use.
- runarb 12y agoIANAL, but I doubt that that is an issue in most jurisdiction. A website does not get to make their own law by simply putting up a note. Neither are the terms of use a binding contract between two parties because the scrapers are not the websites customers, and thus did not sign or agree to anything. Wikipedia has some insight into the legal issues with web scraping: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping#Legal_issues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping#Legal_issues At least for me it looks like one are better of adding technical counter measures against scrapers then to try a legal route.